LANDING THE ARMY. Shafter's Men Debark at Bai- quiri Without Resistance, SAMPSON SHELLS SHORE Battleship Texas Engages the Weat Bat. tery at Cabanas and Loses One of Her Men Mines Recovered From the Channel at Guantanamo Prior to the Invasion Communifation Established. A Washington special says: OMelal de- spatohes received by both Secretaries, Alger and Long, indicate that the landing of troops was affected at Baiquiri, and met with comparatively silght resistance, This was stated in a despatch received by SBecre- tary Alger, which, though brief, was full of news and meaning, I» follows Playa del Este. Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. Off Baiquiri, Cuba. Landing at Daiquiri successful, Very little, if apy, resistance, {Bigned.] SHAFTER. Bhortly after Recretary Alger received his despateh, Secretary Long received a more extended cablegram from Admiral Sampson, It, too, was dated at Playa del Este. The text of the despatch translated from the Navy Department cipher is as follows: “Landing of the army Is progressing favorably at Balquiri., There is very little if any resistance, The New Orleans, De- troft, Castine, Wasp and "Suwanee shelled vicinity before the landing. We made a demonstration at Cabanas to engage the attention of the enemy, The Texas en- gaged the west battery for hours, She had one man killed. Ten submarine mines have been recovered from the chanp- nel of Guantanamo. Communication by telegraph has been established at Guan- tanamo, *[Signed.] some SAMPSON." Balquiri, Cuba, via Kingston, (Special. }—The American troops Baiqulrl, seventeen miles east of The vanguard of Jamalea, landed at Santiago. 8,000 men were protected by the firs of which at the time was bombarding Aguadores, Cabanas, Siboney and Juragua, fortifled places to the east and west of Santiago, which it was necessary to clear away before advancing to Santiago. Simultaneously, a force of 1,000 Cubans, undar insurgent genera, Demetric Castillo, was covering the debarkation the fleet, Same the They were transferred by the navy from Ascradores to Sigua, where tl by & force of 500 other Cu bined force was to Daiquiri, When the landiag of the Americans began the Spanish was exposed to a heavy fire from the coast, and a rain of Mauser bullms from the Cubans, constantly the land batteries at Cabanas an« Aguadores, These according to Admiral Sampson, best work of de- fense that the Bpaniards bave d here- abouts, and thelr guaners were the best enemy has yet shown. General Shalter’s plan of tack was unfolded by Garela and Babli, Goaquia and Demetrius, Aseradores, Eagineers accomp ey were joine bans, } attack the who were o« batteries, have done the ie the Lh and at- trenerais landing to Generals ( in Rabi's himsell and t astillo, camp at t 0 Aserandores, whi oO J I no advantage as a government map shows the Bantiago; but it is mule-paih, good coral road, passable at counects Baiquiri with Santiago and is an abundance of good water Daiquirt, The troops will stay at Daiquiri two days, Bel Santiago, they will have to take the batteries at Aguadores and Cabanas to control Santiago , and also destroy Admiral Cer fleat, il does not meet A Cuban who bad deserted from the Span- ish ranks surrendered to the Marblehead, saying that he was unable jonger to the starvation ratioss issued to the troops. He declared that there others in the same condition ¢ surrender, AR ere Bi: SBE 00#, there Al re the floal attack on » he VOraA s ome out belore (0 Sampson, endure Spanish were many od noxious to IMPRESSING STEAMEKS Now, Government Determines to Selze Vessels on the Pacific Coast. A Ban Frauclsco special says: The govern. ment bas taken a firm stand with regard to securing transports to carry troaps to Maniia, and from this time forward ime pressment will be the rule until enough vessels have Leen secured, The Pacific Mail Compacy’s steamer Now- port has been Impressed. This makes the sixth vessel owned Ly the Tacifle Mall Com pany, which is In the service of the govern ment. The steamer was thoroughly fumi- fated and bas gone to'the mail doex. Her cargo will be discharged as rapidiy as pos. sible, and then the work of fitting her out will begin. The Peru Is due from Orfent on June 24, aud the City of Janeiro follows her on July 5. Both steau- ers will probably be taken, The Alameda iadue from Australia and Honolulu on June 28 and the government agents will swoop down on her. This will leave the Oceanic Steamship Company with only the Mariposa on the Australian route, and no steamer on the Honolulu route, the dio de FOREIUN AFFAIRS, The poliee of Loadon say that John Trodd, who sbot Count Arco-Valley, the Hecretary of the German embassy, reaily in. tended to shoot Col. John Hay, the Amer- jean smunssador. Lord William Frederic Ernest Beymour bas Leen gazetted commander of the Brit ish troops in Canada, The French Cabinet, headed by Premier Moline, resigned la a body, nnd it is expect. ed that M. Rivot, former premier and min. ister of finance, will be lavited to forp a new ministry. Asoording to a dispatch from Shaoghal, Franoe aod Bussia are pressing new terri torial claims at Foo Chow and Kin Chow, in Manchuria, The Peruvian Congress opened at Lima in the presence of a large gathering of notable people, President Plerola read his presidential message, A large Eaglish company has been formed with a oapital of $1,000,0.0 to work the Iron deposits at Bay de Verde, a fishing settle. ment on the north side of Conception bay, Newfoundland, Ettevast, the anarchist, who on January 19 last stabbed M. Benard, an ageat of the Paris police, was sentenced to death in Chinese students have formed a secret society for the development of the Chinese army and a spirit of sstagoniswm to foreigners. GENERAL LANDED. According to a special dispatch from Gi- braltar it is reported there from Ban Fer- nando, near Cadiz, that the correspondent of the New York Herald has thrown into prison. A jury in the United States Court at Charleston, W. Va., found a verdict of 84.000 damages io favor of J, W. Gosborn against Sheriff Copenhaver, ox-Sheriff Siiman, Coun~ ty Clerk Stanton and others, Bull was brought for £100,000 for conspiracy, malic fous prosecution and defamation of charac. ter, It grew out of a political fight, An appeal will be taken, William Woodruff was held up by foot pads near Sistersville, W. Va, and beaten so badly that he died, Only a few dollars were secured, Business circles in Kansas City, Mo,, surprised by the announcment that the Citi- zons' National Bank, the National Bank in Kansas City, has been absorbed by been are oldest ibe Union National, sald, was not dolog a Without any previous notice opened under one management, profitable hy the tw who has so well interests in Havana as was ir. his care, is to quit Havapa for home leave. He bas bees a long time in Ha continuously, and has under mu strain Daring his Mr rome, vice consul, will assu: with the « protected necessarily left been intely. absence consulate, slong are interests, Captain Langhorne, figure in ¢ iarate history, | home at Kansas City, Mo., of Car tain Langhorne was born | 1834. In Inte war he recs for his bravery and won hon Joe Shelby fu latter's paign. The story of Langh Waxs a small is familiar, Maurice the the tahie with atehie with With reference to the take persona pedition which is to General Miles future was, in “] expect to y and Cuba at some ow say when.” this respec Mills Kavannal The old Habersham i abil ulldiags io , Ga, it in 1538, were siarie Am OL fire was tod Presi never given, Loss c For several days the French Cal ow pany has been ftrylog t« re-establish Guantanamo and Santiago, It Is under. permit this cable to be worked inde te Sti under the sug nmerel ervision { 18 « Koy West, George Campbell and Peter drowned at Thunder Bay, Wise, 1 work io a diving bell gaged at the cargo of the sunken steamer Clisen were rae re it & year ago the founder of the famous diviog bell a son of Gardiner Campbell, founder of the Centennial When the bell raised it was found that both med i drowned as they were working which burst through one of the glass dows, was and beil, Was bs wine John Zimmons, inmate of the prison at Trenton, N. J., hanged his cell with & cord which he one of the shops, he wrote a letter, beggiog Lis mother's for. giveness, an bimael! In mill at Harrisburg, Pa. tral Iron and Steel Company. not been in active use for some time, untll recently, when the flanging department was placed in this bullding. The loss will reach $40,000, partiaily insured. The fire origin ated near the furnace, and the ignition of the woodwork, owned by the Cen- 47,000 TROOFS AT CHICKAMAUGA paign Agninst the Canteens, Chickamauga National Miltary {Bpecial, ) daily by from 500 to 700 recruits, i For the first time in the bistory of United States ag ambulances corps is organized. England, Germany and France have such corps in their armies, but it is a new undertaking for this government, The object of this organization is to facilitate the proper handling of the sick and wounded on the field. The corps will have attached to it skilled physicians, surgeons and stewards, which, with a full supply of attendants, will num- ber one hundred and fifty. They have twen- ty-five ambulaness, twenty-eight horses and seventy-six mules, together with wagons and harness for moving their equipage, There is adriver and an orderly fur each ambulance, The chaplains of nearly all of the various regiments now encamped at Chickamanga Park have begun a vigorous erusade against the many regimental canteans, or salcous, The fight is yet in Ita ineiplency, but it promises to Le waged with unrelenting vigor and if the chaplains oan obtain the cooper. ation of the army officials the canteens will soon bea thing of the past, - RUMOGED PORTO RICO BATTLE Spaniel Nay an American Cruiser Was Driven Away. A despateh from Han Juan de Porto Rico saye: “An American cruiser appeared off the barbor and the cruiser Isabella, a gunboat, and the Terror salied out to attack her, The American withdrew immediately, “One Spaniard was killed snd three were wounded.” : * Shafter's Force Disembarked Without Loss of a Man. STRATEGY SUCCESSFUL. Spaniards Misled as to Intended Point of Landing, CUBANS FIGHTING HARD. of 16,000 Than Hendered FfMelent Were Fut Twenty.four Ald Gunbonats Shelled Entire Fxpedition Ashore in Less Hours~Cubsns as Guards and Scouts the Woods sand Hills and Dispatch of Santiago Prevented the He-enforcements From Kingston, shal put Spat reli, idiers were bers bursday night. The Utterly wiral Sampson's the other for- itiago ir ir ! ops forty Yankees were other bombardments extending over { LK. Hpanish ere avaliable on the east side of a iine of const than the enty oe i prevented what and the landing Was accotm- § 5 ' ar a oa i Of an w the harbor t plished wi i i American soldier One sallor the Texas by a fragment « A Cul siren ballery Al Was inju wmerican led high Thursday t mes, ammuoniti los wore ulri, They are CRIT un them and CUBAN HOME ON THE American 16.000 men in perfect all the knowi- Meanwhile, static with edge that experience cau give, Gen, Garcia's 6,000 Cabasn garrison of Sane tiago, spanish Cannot Heach Balgnlri. With the insurgent foros 10 run over, the ong time in reaching are io better trim were, Adequately armed by the American Com Jalquir, The Cubans than ever and plestifully fed they burned DBalquiri belore they abandoned It, That is they burned the : bute, the storehouse, and ma hine shops of the frou company, but they neglected to destroy the pier, which was the | ng the Americans eared about, and The Spaniards only th GRNERAL FANXDG (Spanish Corps Commander who opposed Shatter.) tue real reason for their choosing this point to disembark the troops, There were three great explosions during the confldgration, indieatiag that the Span. ards had Jeft behind a vast quantity of dynamite or gunpowder. "The als Intaotcy was the first ashore, Gen, Shafter's old regiment, the Fire: In. fantry, eame next, foliowed by the Twen. ty-fifth, Twenty-second, Tenth, Beventeenth, and Twelfth, The Becond Massachusetts and a detachment of Ninth Cavalry were also among the guard, The first-comers had to throw their rifles from the boats to the pler and clamber up after them, As fast asa compnpy loned up on the pler it was marched The formed YH on KWAY, shore, regiments on Precautions Against Attack, as a detachment westward on the road to Saostiago, troug body was sent to the top of north of the little town, As theso the only possibile approaches the rest of the ’ troops were quartered in the Gen, Lawton first precaution threw six miles to the Another oul astrong The bull modated a good many. ings lu deserted buts, and ip thelr tents in there, Hogs of thicket that (1 the mAKe sure Seouting parties beat around the enmp to would Le no Spanpish bushwbhacklog, suct ns the marices met at Calmancrs, Dut Both lag hostile was found, While our men up on the hill, jog the Spaniards, and the bi under Castlilo, were atlsck- ck hicuse rye $11 or + re] men sii a the wer transports a troopships a: t-war was playiog ‘Yaskee Do 4 as bard as it could, and way back hi { 4 cheering, and every band « men. die iiils above the barred rdd ag the Bpauish fag BEY. Preparing for the Advance. No time Is to be lost ln eapturiog The force at Balqul: b mediately Already the bridging guil=ys ar ’ be advan for the passage ery. They will waitiog for the reenforeementis now ¢ {from the plateau where LU the siege guns and move othe hil) ming Slates a WEE his piatesn extends almost to Santiago It will be the ines are to be i sahed will never rward and there be a Ume when Lhe Americans will not be in 8 position U pulse an the unlikely event { the Bpaniards defeating and attack, even in Garcia s | getting between ihem and vaders, Gen, Garcia has reported Avr “dV + #xr COAST REAR SANTIAGO and Admiral Sampson tiago have notifled bic has moved from its old Iu further up in the channel, The new position gives them trol of the narrowest aud also makes it more diffieult American fleet to uttack them, The Spanish ships In Santiago harbor mapaged to take a smell part in the day's skirmishing. The right wing of Garela's eolumn came out on the hill back of the town, where they were visible Irom the bay, and Cervera opened on them with his seo ondary battery, The people on the Texas believe the Estrella bLattery, one of the shots of whish killed a man ou an American battleship, fo badly damaged, If not quite crippled, The batteries ceased firing after a 0-min- ute bombardment, and though the Texas re. mained in range and fought a baltery of field artillery that bad been rushed down to the beach, the big Estrella guns remained silent, While Sampson's ships wore pulverizing block-houses and forts and shelling villages ali wlong the coast, Commodore Schley re- mained on guard outside of Santiago. Schiey was busy with the water batteries beneath the Morro. The lowacams upin the midst of the racket, and her big guns «0dn tiad these batteries io as bad shape as the Estrella forte, % that #itic better cone for the Gen. Corbin Will Not Command, A Washington special says: General Core Lin, on being asked to reply to published statements that he might, under certala son- tingencias, command the army, replied, with empbasis: “Abtsurd-the thought pever came to me. No more was it ever ene tertained by any friend of mise, The law of promotion and command practically makes any staff officer out of the question, Of right, the commander of the army will always be taken from the Major-Generals of the army, or as & reward to some general of the live, greatly distinguishing himeel! in battle, This wili not be departed from. Neither is there the slightest probability of auy obange in command of th aray.” MANY SAILORS DEOWNED, Storm Wreoks Chinese Torpade Boat De stroyer and 130 Men Are Lost. During a recent typhoon at Port Arthur & Chinesa torpedo boast was driven ashore there and 180 men were drowned, The Russian warship Sissol Vellky (Sasol the Great) was niso damaged during tbe fame storm. From Baltimore Morning Herald A BETTER BLOCKADE Sampson Bends Four Fast Ships to Patrol the Const of Cuba. Orr Baxrtiaco pe Cosa (via Kingston, Ju- With the Santiago by land and by sea Admiral Bamp- i ihe uthern special, of the large ports on the #« const westward of Bantiago. For three weoks the south const from tisgo to Cape Ban Antonis bas been practi- cally unprotected, The blockede has in name only, with the result that a number of ships have passed the pes apd sn im- Yuan mense quantity of provisions have Havana, ade runners have land¢ i , a thelr un. der the jee of the Isie of Ploes, CAIgOGS wed taken in raliroad {hbenoe the provisions bave been #mall boasts to Batabano, to Havaos., The adm whence a ral has now deci A + i Cease, ALG De » patrol the » dispateh 1 A Washington Herald says: President M will lssue a pr Bataband sintle iy iose Lhe last channel ch the Spaniards in Havana re- To make assurances d u bigh authorl'y {the President to ' 30 BLY pisces Lb ubly that extend supplies are belog oblalned | AIXTY SAID TO BE KILLED, the Allies Inflicted Heavy [Loss Tomes Estrada Palms, hoad of the dele. gation from the Cuban republio to this coun- try, recel dispatch from the insurgents fighting in Cuba. The MesMARe CON tm those who took part in anamo and Balquirl dar. the American troops. It vod the Orst direct cable es Ir it at Guan landing © the Ogt £ f ing the b FPrava pxa New York Kate. sae 20 go s ‘ “ia F g Lelrada Palma, “We are st Guadtasamo from at Playa del Position taken Este, Foupht Cubans against Complete rout. Esemy's Captured eighteen pris- offiorr. Bixty dead, zizteen On our part, two killed, three We captured twenty-eight Mau- cartridges, Forces of Brigadier Gastillo took eight American vessels, to tuwn retreating. Americar troops disem- sajlquirl,. General Garela on enemy Bpaniards, shameful, oners, Le wounded, Spaniards set fire Fifteen thousand barked at on "*Coroxel LAaporbE. Mr. Palma cabled the following answer wel Laborde, Playa del Este, Cuba “Caban delegation cordially congratulates Americans and Cubans ob sprendid triumphs ai Guantasamo sod Balguirl, “Estas Parma.” The receipt of Colonel Laborde’s message caused great rejoleing by the jupta. . cid i “nl INSIDE SANTIAGO HARBOR, Spanish Torpedo Vessels are Injured, bat th Cruisers are Heady for Action, Ix Gx, Gascia's Came, Nuar Bastiaoo pr Cuma, (Bpetial, )—A Caban who left San- tiago Mooday night arrived at Gen Garcia's Tuesday morning with accurate maps of the harbor and of the earthworks surround- ing It, The ships of Admiral Cererva have moved from the positions in which they were three days ago, and now lle in almost a clrole, surrounding a small sisud snd lighthouse about baif-way up the four-mile harbor. The armored cruiser Cristobal Polon lies to the west, commanding with ber port batiery the narrow neck of the barbor, while the Vizeaya iles 10 the east, her starboard bate tery looking down upon the same neck Both of the Spacish torpeddboats are tem. porarily injured, one having been struck by fragments of the sheil that sank the Relna Mercedes and the other baviag her boiler tubes and engines in course of repair, The reason why the torpedo boats, since their arrival, have not made any sttempt to jexve is that they are unable t do so, The ships bave ouly hall supplies of coal, ale though some coal arrived by overland route two weeks ago. The shell that sank the cruiser Relna Mercedes was fired in the first bombard. ment by the Massachusetls, Beyond this loss and the large Joss of life inoldent to i, there was little damage done The earth- works were disturbed and one smoothbore gun was dismounted on the west battery, ABOUT NOTED FROPVLE, Young Phil Shebidan will enter West Point on the 50th anniversary to a day of the entrance of bis father, Editor Edward Rosewater, of the GCmaba before the students of Cornell University in the spring of 1898, Burn Houses and Flee, TITUTION. Americans Ave Watehf ul on the Lookout fur an Attack by the Enemy Oregon onsianiily tomburds sn Blockhonse and Completely Heduces It Marines Mest less, Off Guantanam« ine. Npecini Cuban soon sport thst to bBubitants of Calmusuers glrewn Lhe streets with straw and ol th the intention nud wing 10 Calmanera lies four miles up the Day from Camp Mel nder the guns of the American ships, and the situation is des perate, Biarving and famine-siricken, convioced of the ultimate triumph of nerican arms and without faith | he tection of of destroying the « the hills, _iin % the : are beileve yelr houses peck saloty the couts deciars id say LUA every bulidiog in the town belug rapidly pre- pared for the toreh, he situation The people eating mules and are securing the hills for aad brie! ed 10 bave determined 1 of the besieged is a fearful and fruits thom t ohe, are horses herbs, Occasionally nrd- ments by the American fleet leaves the help eas citizens terror-stricken, no ’ . ior It is also preparations defense being made #ialed that the at Calmanera has been loaded mables and i 1 ber con never Leo The so dlers are lu alm 3 re 4 NM { #ils The hi a tirdiid sed are brilliant gud iis Bl a is CRIN] established slong and this plsc meaus of eo Santiag sumunics in the interior. The given has proved Americans, Their It among the Bpanish vicinity bave been Jers cata General ey , Who Is in command of the Bpanish forces here, Is undoubtediy ln a bad way io regard oltalning food for Lis The prisone baw appear Ai areas 1iflerent wh “ave tured apparentiy lo are Was Cap. the Marbie- a steam launch a sloop con the name of They said they were on thelr way 10 Guantanamo to get a supply of ofl for the lighthouse at Cape Mays! Lut papers found ou the sloop proved bad been sent to mation relative to the American forces, The crew of the sloop asserted that they had been lli-fed and ghtiully fil-treated by the Spanish com- wander of Cape Mavysi forces, There was & brie! bomberdment of a up the bay by the battleship Buoday, and it is believed that dar. ing the fring at least a seore of Bpaniards were killed, Beouting parties report that the blockbouse was completely destroyed, but that they were unable to discover any bodies, the remains of the soldiers who had beet killed having jrobably been carried off acd * i ug § > 5 v tad oh tafe * aining 8&8 Bpanisd it : Ur salons, thal they oblain ini Oregon A rumor 10 ihe Hotwon and his Merrimac effect that Lieutenant fellow-beroes of the collier bad been seen on the walls of Castle, under a Spapish guard, among the feet of Santiago, but story is discredited on Commodore Schiey’s Oageifip, Toe officers say thet Spanish seutries were mis. bs the FEARS OF A MASSACRE. to Have Been Killed by Hebels Reports from Manlia, says & special dis. have been it is thought, according to the same ade lingness of Gen, Aguinaido, the iasargent leader, to allow the British Consul 10 start TWO SAILORS WOUNDED, Armorer and Gunner's Mate Injared by an Accidental Explosion, A warship which arrived at Key West from the blockade off Havana reports that nothing of interest can be seen from the ships there except prodigious aetivity in the construction of defense works on shore, The vessels brought in W. Henderson, Chiet Armorer, and J. Herman, Guoner's Mate, of one of the gunboats, who were wounded while at work in the armor room of the ship while trying to sxtrset the fuse from a one-pound shell, Henderson was struck in the abdomen Ly a piece of the sbell ard Herman bad his right arm lacers. ted. The mon will be placed fa the marine hospital. Both will recover. CAR SHA bt THOUSANDS OUT OF WORK, £ vious Pitastion ia the Mining Regions . of Catalonia, in Spain. a The situation in the mining regions of Catalonia is most serious. There are 17
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